[Dixielandjazz] Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism

[Jack Mitchell]

Marek wrote:
" Count Bsie, probably the first - or one
> of the first - Negro bandleaders to employ white musicians (he employed
> Buddy de Franco in the small group he had in the late forties after his 
> big
> band disbanded), and later hired a white drummer to power his band."

And in 1951he offered a position in his band to Australian clarinetist Don 
Burrows, but Don was on his way back to Australia when it was made.

Best wishes
Jack Mitchell